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January 6, 2018 21:57
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Monitor Mouse Event for any arbitrary application on macOS in Swift
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let callback: CGEventTapCallBack = { (tapProxy, eventType, event, refcon) -> Unmanaged<CGEvent>? in | |
debugPrint("we are monitoring the mouse event here") | |
return nil | |
} | |
let eventMask = (1 << CGEventType.leftMouseDown.rawValue) | (1 << CGEventType.leftMouseUp.rawValue) | |
let machPort = CGEvent.tapCreateForPid(pid: 40529, place: .tailAppendEventTap, options: .defaultTap, eventsOfInterest: CGEventMask(eventMask), callback: callback, userInfo: nil)! | |
let runLoopSource = CFMachPortCreateRunLoopSource(kCFAllocatorDefault, machPort, 0) | |
CFRunLoopAddSource(CFRunLoopGetCurrent(), runLoopSource, .commonModes) | |
CGEvent.tapEnable(tap: machPort, enable: true) | |
CFRunLoopRun() |
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Is there any way to use this code to prevent events from being forwarded to the application? I am trying to prevent my cursor from being replaced whenever I hover over the dock. Even tho I return
nil
within the callback, the dock still receives the events.